Dr. Sanjit Singh Dang is a contributor who covers AI and other emerging technologies. He has been a successful venture capitalist, corporate executive, board member, and speaker in silicon valley for over two decades. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chairman of U First Capital which has invested in over 25 category-leading companies such as Groq, Perplexity, Anthropic, Cohere, SpaceX, Uniphore, Pensando, and DevRev. Prior to that, he was at Intel Capital where he led Venture Capital investments in Enterprise Software.Sanjit is on the advisory council of the UN’s World Artificial Intelligence Organization. He has also served on the University of California President's Innovation Council.Sanjit has the fastest engineering Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago (2 years 9 months after undergrad), which he received in 2000 with top research awards. He also attended the VC executive program at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.